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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Decolonisation of Africa 1951-12-24 - 1975-11-11
Civil rights movement 1954-05-17 - 1968-08-01
Algerian War of Independence 1954-11-01 - 1962-03-19
Space Race 1955-07-30 - 1969-07-16
Vietnam War 1955-11-01 - 1975-04-30
Sino-Soviet split 1956 - 1966
Great Leap Forward 1958 - 1962
Cod Wars 1958-09-01 - 1976-06
Great Chinese Famine 1959 - 1961
Challe Plan 1959-02-01 - 1961-04-01
Laotian Civil War 1959-05-23 - 1975-12-02
Sit-in movement 1960-02-01 - 1964
Congo Crisis 1960-07-05 - 1965-11-25
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29

People

James Watson age 32
Edward VIII age 66
John Kerry age 17
Madeleine Albright age 23
Hamid Karzai age 3
José Mujica age 25
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia age 36
Yoshihide Suga age 12
Rajiv Gandhi age 16
Thabo Mbeki age 18
Georgy Zhukov age 64
Wernher von Braun age 48
Clement Attlee age 78
Harald V of Norway age 23
Viktor Yushchenko age 6
John Major age 17
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi age 6
Abdelaziz Bouteflika age 23
Jens Stoltenberg age 1
Slobodan Milošević age 19
Vajiralongkorn age 8
Enver Hoxha age 52
Jacob Zuma age 18
Park Geun-hye age 9
Martti Ahtisaari age 23
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden age 14
Moon Jae-in age 8
Mitt Romney age 13
Juan Manuel Santos age 9
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 25
Konstantin Chernenko age 49
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam age 29
Beatrix of the Netherlands age 23
Jiang Zemin age 34
Friedrich Merz age 5
Sauli Niinistö age 12
Eduard Shevardnadze age 33
Romano Prodi age 21
Imran Khan age 8
Ebrahim Raisi age 1 month
Cyril Ramaphosa age 8
Serzh Sargsyan age 6
Pranab Mukherjee age 25
Park Chung-hee age 43
Vyacheslav Molotov age 70
Joachim Gauck age 21
Anthony Eden age 63
Thomas Sankara age 11
Megawati Soekarnoputri age 14
Menachem Begin age 47
Jean-Claude Juncker age 6
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 3
Erich Honecker age 48
Francis Crick age 44
Hafez al-Assad age 30
Li Keqiang age 5
Muhammadu Buhari age 18
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 6 months
Horst Köhler age 17
Fumio Kishida age 3
Peter Higgs age 31
Kevin Rudd age 3
Sebastián Piñera age 11
Tarja Halonen age 17
Daniel Ortega age 15
Gro Harlem Brundtland age 21
Islam Karimov age 23
Dan Quayle age 14
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman age 40
Paul Kagame age 3
Omar al-Bashir age 17
Anne, Queen of Great Britain age 296
Naoto Kan age 14
Philippe of Belgium age 9 months
Adolf Eichmann age 54
Pratibha Patil age 26
Droupadi Murmu age 2
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono age 11
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto age 33
Juan Perón age 65
Heydar Aliyev age 37
Herman Van Rompuy age 13
Hassanal Bolkiah age 14
Norodom Sihanouk age 38
Mario Draghi age 13
Kim Dae-jung age 37
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon age 60
Christian Wulff age 1
Radovan Karadžić age 15
Boutros Boutros-Ghali age 38
Atal Bihari Vajpayee age 36
Aldo Moro age 44
Qaboos bin Said Al Said age 20
Asif Ali Zardari age 5
Yoon Suk Yeol age 1 month
F. W. de Klerk age 24
Ludwig Erhard age 64
Ashraf Ghani age 11
Kurt Waldheim age 42
Alexander Van der Bellen age 17
Miloš Zeman age 16
Mobutu Sese Seko age 30
Salome Zourabichvili age 8
Jomo Kenyatta age 67
Andrés Manuel López Obrador age 7
Emomali Rahmon age 8
Julius Nyerere age 38
Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow age 3
Saparmurat Niyazov age 20
Yoweri Museveni age 16
Leonid Kuchma age 22
Donald Rumsfeld age 28
Masoud Pezeshkian age 6
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev age 7
Albert II, Prince of Monaco age 2
Klaus Iohannis age 1
Olof Palme age 34
Süleyman Demirel age 36
Ahmet Davutoğlu age 1
Queen Camilla age 13
Jonas Salk age 46
Karl Dönitz age 69
Ruth Bader Ginsburg age 27
Pierre Trudeau age 41
Fulgencio Batista age 60
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan age 72
Wojciech Jaruzelski age 37
Bronisław Komorowski age 8
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo age 13
Syngman Rhee age 85
Junichiro Koizumi age 19
Tarō Asō age 20
U Thant age 52
Rudolf Hess age 66
Colin Powell age 23
Norodom Sihamoni age 7
Giulio Andreotti age 42
Anders Fogh Rasmussen age 8
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali age 24
Alexander Dubček age 39
Wen Jiabao age 18
Václav Klaus age 19
Ehud Olmert age 15
Francesco Cossiga age 32
Dalia Grybauskaitė age 4
José Manuel Barroso age 4
İsmet İnönü age 76
Leonid Kravchuk age 27
Ali Abdullah Saleh age 13
Puyi age 55
Ahmed Ben Bella age 44
Tony Abbott age 3
Heinz Fischer age 22
Michael D. Higgins age 19
Paolo Gentiloni age 6
Mario Monti age 17
Alberto Fujimori age 22
Roh Moo-hyun age 14
Bernard Montgomery age 73
Richard von Weizsäcker age 40
Albert Speer age 55
Miguel Díaz-Canel age 9 months
Ram Nath Kovind age 15
Nawaz Sharif age 11
François Fillon age 6
Võ Nguyên Giáp age 49
Albert II of Belgium age 26
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani age 26
José Eduardo dos Santos age 18
Néstor Kirchner age 10
John Howard age 21
Idriss Déby age 8
Alexander Kerensky age 79
Turgut Özal age 33
Eisaku Satō age 59
Yukio Hatoyama age 13
Georgy Malenkov age 59
Jean-Bedel Bokassa age 39
Sahle-Work Zewde age 10
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar age 41
King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud age 55
Michel Temer age 20
Sergei Korolev age 54
Mauricio Macri age 1
Traian Băsescu age 9
Walter Mondale age 33
Paul Biya age 27
Lester B. Pearson age 63
Tansu Çiller age 14
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 12
Ratko Mladić age 18
Dzhokhar Dudayev age 16
Abdelmadjid Tebboune age 15
Isabel Martínez de Perón age 30
Teodoro Obiang age 18
B. J. Habibie age 24
Mary Robinson age 16
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi age 40
Hastings Banda age 71
Thaksin Shinawatra age 11